lovely.
At the very least, he WAS a Muslim. If someone was raised in a Buddhist family and culture in the world’s biggest Muslim nation, went to a Buddhist religious school as a registered Buddhist, would he have been called a Christian?
He may have had a formal conversion to Christianity at some time in his life, or he may have grabbed at the Christian religion for political purposes—and now call himself a Christian in public—but I think Shariah law has a provision in it that approves duping the infidels when a Muslim is living there as a minority.
Many Jews were ‘conversos’ in Christian Spain but reputedly remained Jewish in secret.